AUKUS cannot become a reality under the current Biden-Harris policies. While Trump is unpredictable, he’ll spend substantially more on defence and produce a stronger, tougher America. That alone makes him likely the better option for us.
The US President has been warned there is “no time to wait” on a security deal involving Australia given the “grave and imminent threat” of China in the Indo-Pacific.
Former prime minister Paul Keating has slammed the AUKUS alliance partners for failing to respond to concerns about the future of Australian military sovereignty.
A Senate inquiry into the November 8 Optus outage has issued seven recommendations addressing the telco’s ‘manifestly inadequate’ response.
Ministers believe having a new bilateral framework between Australia and the UK – in addition to the trilateral deal with the US – will accelerate the design, build and delivery of SSN-AUKUS.
What worries Paul Keating and me about the wildly expensive AUKUS submarine project is the abdication of sovereign agency it necessarily involves, and which Alexander Downer frankly admits.
If we stick with the appeasement strategy – the one favoured by Paul Keating and Gareth Evans – that is the strategy that leads to war. For every inch we give these countries, they take a mile.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made a strong statement about the future of a multi-billion dollar investment after meeting with US President Joe Biden.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made a strong statement about the future of a multi-billion dollar investment after meeting with US President Joe Biden.
Seeking ‘security in Asia’ will be meaningless for as long as China pursues expansionist designs to displace the US in the region. It’s in our interests to work with others to prevent this.
The phony realpolitik case for coexistence with China ignores a fundamental case for AUKUS – demonstrating that if diplomatic push comes to military shove, Australia has the credible capacity to protect itself.
AUKUS architect and former prime minister Scott Morrison and the Coalition have welcomed the announcement on the pact but experts warn that the priority of the agreement should remain the three founding members.
Arguments raised by Gareth Evans against our reliance on AUKUS for our national security have some merit, but only in the context of the Albanese government’s assumption that rhetoric can substitute for action.
Australia, the US and Britain will open the door to AUKUS co-operation with South Korea, New Zealand and Canada in a potential expansion of the pact’s so-called ‘Pillar II’ partnership.
Paul Keating, Bob Carr and I seem to have jangled a few security establishment nerves with our critique of the AUKUS submarine deal.
Gareth Evans has slammed the AUKUS submarine deal, saying it will cede sovereignty to the US and saddle the nation with exorbitant costs for dubious benefit.
The key architects of the past 40 years of Australian defence policy have criticised claims by Paul Keating, Gareth Evans and Bob Carr that AUKUS will undermine the nation’s sovereignty.
How should one respond to an argument that we should not defend our country at all, if it was invaded by China, or some other hypothetical enemy?
The Australian Army will need to be able to conduct special operations with submarine support in our region – as we did in the Pacific War.
The success of the AUKUS vision of a tri-nation security partnership to deliver next generation warfighting capabilities demands much of each partner nation.
The AUKUS trilateral security partnership between the US, Australia and Britain represents a fundamental re-imagining of Australia’s national security framework.
Leading defence experts have backed a proposal from opposition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie to expand the AUKUS framework to cover co-operation between the SAS and US Navy SEALs.
AUKUS is three years old but we still have nothing to show for it. It’s Yes Minister defence, without the bother of a military.
In the present volatile state of the world, it seems rash for either Australia or Britain to say or sign anything that promises blank-cheque support in an American shootout with China.
The Prime Minister has dodged a question about the purpose of a pact with two of our greatest allies to build nuclear-powered submarines.
US admiral William Houston says providing Australia with nuclear-powered subs will be ‘challenging’ but that ‘we are on the path to achieve this’.
A failure of leadership, vision, messaging and political management is the pact’s greatest threat.
A major milestone has just been hit in Australia’s ambition to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
South Australia is clearly the region showing most urgency in mobilising towards the industrial and economic change needed to see AUKUS succeed. But our whole nation needs to step up, too.
Whatever their mistakes, Hawke and Keating, unlike this generation of Labor leaders, understood that private business was the engine of wealth creation and the best way to help workers was for employers to succeed.
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